Resolution Quotes - Page 29

• It is not wit merely, but temper, which must form the well-bred man. In the same manner it is not a head merely, but a heart and resolution, which must complete the real philosopher.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Real, Heart, Men

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• There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Perseverance, May, Gains

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• Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke of life is certainly the least oppressive when we carry it with good-humor; and in the shades of rural retirement, when we have once acquired a resolution to pass our hours with economy, sorrowful lamentations on the subject of time misspent and business neglected never torture the mind.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Time, Retirement, Mind

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• God forbid that Judges upon their oath should make resolutions to enlarge jurisdiction.

  William Cowper

  Judging, Should, Oath

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• The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.

  Seneca the Younger

  Greatness, Men, Invincible

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• Experience teacheth us
  That resolution 's a sole help at need:
  And this, my lord, our honour teacheth us,
  That we be bold in every enterprise:
  Then since there is no way, but fight or die,
  Be resolute, my lord, for victory.

  William Shakespeare

  Fighting, Victory, Needs

  William Shakespeare (1780). “Supplement to the Edition of Shakespeare's Plays Published in 1778”, p.227

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• Put on
  The dauntless spirit of resolution.

  William Shakespeare

  Spirit, Dauntless

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.343

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• Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Death, Men, People

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• We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face--so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Death, Eye, Office

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• The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Giving

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• The ... problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a "real" man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who "goes with" other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.

  Quentin Crisp

  Real, Men, Winning

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• A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed.

  John Selden

  Wise, Men, World

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• To any honest observer, Zimbabwe's sin is that it has taken the position to right a wrong, whose resolution has been too long overdue--to return its land to its people.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Taken, Land, Zimbabwe

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• We must be reduced again and again to the limit of all resolution and resources and be compelled to feel the need of Another's help and sufficiency.

  L. E. Maxwell

  Needs, Limits, Helping

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• TV has a longer narrative, and TV's more like short stories. So there's less rules with TV; you can make it a little bit different. [With] movies, the medium has more constraints, so it was just about what stories are the most cinematic and the best resolution.

  Tucker Max

  Different, Stories, Littles

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• The number one resolution that people mention to me as something that's made them happier is - to my surprise - making the bed.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Numbers, People, Bed

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• I have said there are three principles that should be followed. One, we should maintain the "one China" policy that every American president has articulated, including President Reagan. Secondly, we should make clear that we want a peaceful resolution. And three, Taiwan should not challenge that arrangement in a way that will provoke a conflict. Those are three perfectly clear principles. I haven't used any of the other slogans.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Challenges, Peaceful, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Only so you can appeal to your God and pray Him to support and bless your courage, your work, your perseverance, your strength, your resolution, and with all these your claim on life.

  Adolf Hitler

  Perseverance, Support, Atheism

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939”

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• Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

  John Adams

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Independent

  John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.114, Penguin

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• Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God.

  Andy Murray

  Letting Go, Prayer, Sacrifice

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• On every occasion of uneasiness, we should retire to prayer, that we may give place to the grace and light of God and then form our resolutions, without being in any pain about what success they may have. In the greatest temptations, a single look to Christ, and the barely pronouncing his name, suffices to overcome the wicked one, so it be done with confidence and calmness of spirit.

  John Wesley

  Pain, Prayer, Light

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.526

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• The consequences of these institutions (The towns or districts, the congregations, the schools,and the militia.) have been, that the inhabitants, having acquired from their infancy the habit of discussing, of deliberating, and of judging of public affairs, it was in these assemblies of towns or districts that the sentiments of the people were formed in the first place, and their resolutions were taken from the beginning to the end of the disputes and the war with Great Britain.

  John Adams

  Education, War, Taken

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• We visual communicators have so much good to share: rather than sharing our chemical and style addictions, we could be using our professional skills to help communicate health information, conflict resolution, democracy, technology.

  David Berman

  Technology, Skills, Addiction

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• Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor's mind toward some resolution which it may never find.

  Robert Anderson

  Struggle, Mind, Doe

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• As far as Iraq is concerned, let's not forget what the UNSCR is about, that the main consideration in Iraq is that there is a leader who has been developing weapons of mass destruction, and has been violating UN resolutions for over a decade.

  Donald Evans

  Iraq, Mass Destruction, Leader

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